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To: grog@lemis.de (Greg Lehey)
Subject: Re: Slow Etherlink
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> > 16MB is not nearly enough for a solaris 2.5 machine.
>
> To be fair, that should depend on what you're doing.  But yes, it's
> not normally enough.  Now, on the other hand, I'm compiling gcc on it,
> normally an operation which needs a lot of memory, and it's not doing
> too badly (except that it rebooted on me without saying why).
>

phantom reboots don't generally indicate a happy systems, but ok.

you might try changing some of the kernel tcp parameters like this:

ndd -set /dev/tcp tcp_xmit_hiwat 65535
ndd -set /dev/tcp tcp_recv_hiwat 65535
ndd -set /dev/tcp tcp_cwnd_max 65534

run these as root, of course.


b3n